A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt after a tragedy.
He said, "I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one."
The grandson asked him, "Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?"
The grandfather answered, "The one I feed."
Fire in the Middle - East
The last years' turmoil in the Middle-East arouse to the surface incredible depth of hostility between Jews and Arabs who live in this area. People wonder, why, in spite of what seemed as a serious effort that has been done by both sides since the "Oslo Agreement", all the process failed and the "Holy Land" has been sinking again in bloody violence.
No doubt about certain facts:
1 - The Jewish population makes just a tiny minority among the mostly Arab Moslem population of the Middle East.
2 - The very existence of a non-Arab, moreover - a Jewish State, in the Middle-East, never really has been tolerated by most of the surrounding Arab nations.
3 - Israel has been boycotted since its establishing, by the establishment of intellectual elites in all Arab countries, including Jordan and Egypt, countries that are in state of peace with the Jewish State.
4 - Israel, oppresses the Palestinian people in the territories that she occupied in 1967. She appropriated more than half of the West-Bank lands and spread over it - against the international law - more than 120 settlements, with a population of almost 200.000 people.
5 - Inside Israel, the great Arab Palestinian minority (almost 20%) is treated by all the governments, as discriminated, second grade citizens, usually mistreated, always suspected by the authorities, by the police, suffering from racist tendencies among the majority.
6. In the "Holy Land" fanatic Jewish and Moslem fundamentalists claim exclusive ownership over sites that are holy for both.
What is the common basis of these facts? How can we understand behaviors that sometimes seem totally insane? And above all, what can be done to change all this? We try to present some ideas in our "To Make Peace" page.
Still the first question that the present situation arises is: O.K. - sonner or later the present bloodshed will finish, in the end some kind of agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians will be signed. But what can be done for establishment of a lasting peace? Our answer is quite clear - even though it seems somewhat naive:
First of all -
and above all
Education...
Education for Peace !
This is what we do in "Friendship Village"
You can help our efforts for Peace Education and building bridges between Arabs and Jews, Palestinians and Israelis, by sending your donation on the simplest and cheapest way to our address: take a banknote of 10 or 20 $ or Euro, wrap it in a piece of paper, put it in envelope and send it to our address above. Every donation will be highly appreciated. We are a registered non-profit organization. Receipts will be sent upon request.
